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Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by grantbeed
It only made news because of China's over reaction.
We have cures for the Bubonic Plague.
In fact, many people all over the World die from it every year .. it was never eradicated.
Herdsman dies from plague in northwest China, 11 others infected, town quarantined
Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said.
www.cbc.ca/cp/health/090731/x073115A.html
This is not the only contagious disease that China is grappling with at the moment
40 Al-Qaeda Terrorists Dead After Failed Experiment With Plague Weapon
40 al-Qaeda members died after being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test; test took place in cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers. The newspaper said they apparently became infected while experimenting with biological weapons. Algerian security forces discovered the body of a dead terrorist alongside a road near the abandoned hideout. U.S. intelligence officials, speaking anonymously with Eli Lake of the Washington Times on Tuesday, could only confirm the sudden base closure after an unconventional weapons test went wrong. The officials said they intercepted an urgent communication in early January between the AQLIM leadership and al-Qaeda's top leaders in the tribal region of Pakistan. The Algerian terrorists said they were abandoning and sealing off a training area after a leak of a chemical or biological substance.
pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. According to the WHO, humans can die within 24 hours of infection